Purpose – The paper aims to provide comments on Michailova and Jormanainen's paper, “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical analysis of issues...

Purpose – The paper seeks to provide a commentary on Michailova and Jormanainen's viewpoint entitled “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?”( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical...

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide an invited response to the Michailova/Jormanainen paper ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3) . Design/methodology/approach – The author adopts a subjective approach to respond to the Michailova/Jormanainen paper and challenge/develop further some of the authors'...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to the viewpoint by Michailova and Jormanainen under the title “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The author...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to four commentaries on the original viewpoint entitled “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB, Vol. 7 No. 3). As a response, the paper reflects on several points...